is we talk about atma now we all know okay the body is going to decay it's going to go we are
not invincible but still we live as if we are invisible that there is no end date for us right
now the saying goes the scriptures that our life is number of breaths
pranayama slows down the breath regulates the
breath nostrils each side of the nostrils is irregular breathing so you level it out
i'd like to understand is this a fact because you know you hear so many different variations
and actual fact kundalini yoga that you mentioned i tried to read up on it and i couldn't find
very much on it and i assumed ashtang yog eight limbs of yoga and i thought that's it you know
so i'm confused about kundalini yoga and plus regarding what i've just said
i'd like to have some answer on that here thank you so very there are two questions here that
i would like to address first is pranayama you mentioned the word pranayama you see pranayama
is sometimes interpreted to mean breathing exercises and i'm telling you it is not so this
is the major thing that you must understand what pranayama means is prana means your life force
pranayama means neoman means trying to control the life force that you possess or
trying to if you like get a handle on the life force that is already in within your system this
is the meaning of the word pranayama so how do the breathing come into it this is what patanjali
explains he says really the force that is running your body is very very physical in the sense that
it is the thing that is driving your lungs the reason why your lungs move up and down is
your life force expressing itself by keeping you alive by making the lungs go forward and backward
they're saying look in order for you to now get a deeper glimpse regarding who you are and not just
the body but something more why don't you focus your attention in meditation on the very force
the life force that is driving your lungs it's not the breathing part but the force that is driving
your lungs so he said close your eyes and focus on the force that you can that's the nearest you can
get to the idea of prana my life force the lungs that are moving in and out so you're saying focus
on the lungs moving in and out and i'm telling you from my experience if you are successful in
focusing on the power of the stroke or the thing that is driving your lungs just the lungs nothing
more forget about anything else no intellectual gymnastics just that if you become one pointed
for a moment you get a jerk you get electric shock because now your touch base your touch base with
the life force that really is your your you like you're getting closer to your core your being
so prime is basically trying to in a way get a handle on the very life force that is driving
your lungs not the breathing not the air coming in and out their biceps by the way the thing that
is pulling in the air in and out that is where you focus on this is the beginning of pranayama
now i also mentioned the ideas of astanga yoga and kundalini yoga let me just tidy up
you see when a person is actually successful in meditation and very few are let me give a
health warning to the audience 99 percent i would say even larger percentage of people who claim
success in meditation have no clue what they are talking about they are selling you a gimmick be
very careful they'll give you a discs and here's a cd you play it it's got nice floaty music and
you have to buy this mat the meditation mat we are going to charge you 30 pound for it plus 5
pound postage you sit on this meditation mat and play this thing and then close your eyes
and now you are levitating you are rising and the menacing the only thing that's reasonable reason
is the pocket money that i had just gone but i'm on the floor it's utter nonsense so majority of
the courses that you get or buy are suspect only one in a million of like one in thousand perhaps
knows what they are talking about when they talk about raj yoga when that experience
becomes real what actually happens there are certain physical changes that accompany
a spiritual experience now this can happen in your routine life even you know sometimes we
get a kind of a tingle in the backbone because zoom a tingle you get a thrill and your hair
stands on end when you are successful in raja yoga from the bottom of your spine certain stirring up
begins and you can actually this is the physical part you can actually experience the stirring up
begins at the base of the spine and then seems to move up this is kundalini yoga then it moves up
when it you know arrives at the level of your navel you're beginning to now lose track that
you are just a physical body but doesn't it's not you'd still not experience meditation
when it rises to the level of the heart here the fun begins here now you lose body consciousness
doesn't mean you become faint and you can go into fit or something but you for the first time are
free of the body experience so if for example you are feeling the air on your hair or on your skin
that disappears if you are listening to the traffic outside that disappears you no longer
can hear the traffic so all this all these physical things that you are so sure about
just basically just gently disappear it doesn't mean you become unconscious to the contrary you
become far more conscious than you ever wear but no longer the physical body you reason about the
idea you are the body that is when it hits the heart chakra i feel like this part and this is
just the beginning of the journey here you know for the first time you are not the body you are
not the body if at this stage somebody comes and cuts your body into pieces you won't feel it
so sometimes i'm very naughty i tell our students i say somebody is claiming that success raj yoga
tell him please go into meditation and if you like the person take a little feather and take a limb
if you go say you're not meditating are you and if you don't like the person i said take a pin
take a pin stick it in the sea if he screams they say you're not meditating you're the
masters like ramon marsh or swami vivekananda they you you could cut them into pieces when
they went today the drop of a hat went to deepest meditation you could you can destroy
you know you can kill them destroy the body and they won't even feel they won't bite even
they are reason about the idea they are the body and this is the beginning of kundalini yoga
this is the beginning and you know what happens you heard about the gayatri this marvelous light
that you cannot pray to as a supreme personality if you like the power behind this creation
the gayatri this power this marvelous colorful vision becomes a reality you come face to face
with the most brilliant light more brilliant than the light of all the suns put together you come
across it and the first thing you said i am free i am free i am no longer what i thought that little
tiddly fellow i am not that i am that and this is something it's not arrogant comment it is a most
of my freeing comment you talk about you know this idea of freedom you now achieve that you